188 EAGLES.. 



An intelligent man in whose veraciiy I iiav» 

 confidence, says, that the bald eagle is entirely 

 distinct from the grey — that he cannot be mista- 

 ken in his opinion, for that he has seen the male 

 of each species in connexion with his appropriate 

 female. 



Lawson, in his history of Carolina, says that 

 the bald eagle breeds very often, and lays eggs 

 agVin under the callow young, whose warmth 

 hatches them. The same thing is said of the pi- 

 cas auratus of this country, vulgarly called high 

 hole. These allegations ought to be investigated, 

 as they furnish, if true, a singular anomaly in na- 

 tural history. With respect to the eagle it is pro- 

 bably true, if half of wliat is alleged by one of the 

 early Naturalists is correct. Johnston, in his ela- 

 borate work printed at Amsterdam MDLVIL 

 speaking ' De aquila in genere,' says — " Datur 

 geiius quod propter tres testiculos, Triorchis ap-> 

 pellatur. Coeunt vero frequenter ; et fsemina ter- 

 decies in die compressa, si masrevocet, denuo ac- 

 crriit. Uude .^Egyptiis et Venus dicitur, et soH 

 ^icatur. Commisceniur aliquando cum accipetre, 

 sed ovis inciibare non dignantur; sed et marera 

 cum lupa aliquando coire scriptores African! refe- 

 runt" 



Charlevoix says that his people threw down, 

 iVear Oswego, an eagles' nest which was conipo 



